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Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America

Presented by The Westmoreland Museum of American Art at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg PA

Oct 16 2022
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Feb 05 2023
Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America

John Kane (American, born Scotland, 1860–1934), Larimer Avenue Bridge, 1932, oil on canvas, Carnegie Museum of Art, gift of G. David Thompson.

This exhibition explores how, after World War I, artists without formal training “crashed the gates” of major museums in the United States, diversifying the art world across lines of race, ethnicity, class, ability, and gender.

After World War I, artists without formal training “crashed the gates” of major museums in the United States, diversifying the art world across lines of race, ethnicity, class, ability, and gender. At the center of this fundamental reevaluation of who could be an artist in America were John Kane, Horace Pippin, and Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses. The stories of these three artists not only intertwine with the major critical debates of their period but also prefigure the call for ... view more »

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